Nearly one in four infants lacks enough healthy gut bacteria essential for training their immune systems, putting them at ...

Researchers from the University of Maryland's Department of Nutrition and Food Science are shedding new light on how a ...

Babies lacking in key gut bacteria are at greater risk of developing asthma, allergies or eczema Dirty diapers are more than ...

The U.S. Navy renamed the USNS Harvey Milk to the Oscar V. Peterson in an effort to take the "politics out of ship naming," SecDef Pete Hegseth said.

An infant “fought a losing battle” in his one day of life before dying of injuries from the doctor’s attempted delivery method, according to a Texas lawsuit. The family is suing the doctor ...

More premature babies who had early skin-to-skin contact with their mother were being breastfed at the time of discharge from ...

In contrast to infant formula (IF), fat globules in breast milk (BM) are up to ten times larger and coated with a phospholipid membrane.

The neonatal period is critical in this respect, because the newborn baby is immediately exposed to numerous microorganisms and foreign proteins.

We study the effects of state hospital regulations intended to increase breastfeeding by requiring certain care standards during the postpartum hospital stay. Policy adoption increased breastfeeding ...

If you have an oversupply of breast milk and it's contributing to a foremilk-hindmilk imbalance, you can try block feeding, which is where you offer one breast to your baby for several feedings in ...

In ambulatory care settings, infant growth is used to assess breastfeeding adequacy. However, the assessment of weight gain and growth among breastfed infants has not always been accurate because ...